I have been following it, Joe.

It scares me that there are others living amongst us, who share this man's beliefs.

Tis shocking. But oddly compelling to read.

The EDL are far from quiet - they are joining up with other far right groups across Europe hoping to start an anti-Islamic alliance across Europe.

BBC article from 31 March:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17570464

Very sinister stuff indeed.

And in the States, the American Nazi Party has recently registered its first Washington lobbyist to target congressmen.

Another BBC article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17710570

Scarey stuff. 

I watched that programme, the other night, about the shootings and the bomb. Horrible crimes. 

I wached the doc too. The police messed it up - they arrived late because they could only go by road and not helicopter. Then they overloaded their boat, which sank and they had to be rescued. It must make it all the worse for the victims' families.

I feel uncomfortable with all the attention he is getting now though. He's just a nutter who did it to make himself feel important i.m.o. I'm glad the Norwegians aren't televising his testimony... that application was rejected. Although obviously its still reported, it makes him less centre stage.

Saw the pictures, in my newspaper today, of him weeping in court.  Not with remorse for his appalling crimes but overcome with emotion whilst watching his own propaganda video

http://www.scotsman.com/news/i...-all-again-1-2238242

Anders Behring Breivik trial: says “I would do it all again”

MASS Norwegian killer Anders Breivik launched his defence today by labelling his attack the most “spectacular” by a nationalist militant since the Second World War.

• White supremacist tells court he was acting to prevent the spread of immigration and multiculturalism and to prevent a wider civil war

• If found mentally sane - the key issue to be decided in the trial - Breivik could face a maximum 21-year prison sentence or an alternate custody arrangement that would keep him locked up as long as he is considered a menace to society.

He attempted to defend his massacre of 77 people today, insisting he would do it again and, in a prepared statement that he read to the court, the anti-Muslim extremist lashed out at Norwegian and European governments for embracing immigration and multiculturalism.

He claimed to be speaking as a commander of an “anti-communist” resistance movement and an anti-Islam militant group he called the Knights Templar. There is no evidence the group exists.

Maintaining he acted out of “goodness, not evil” to prevent a wider civil war, Breivik said: “I would have done it again.”

Breivik has five days to explain why he set off a bomb in Oslo’s government district last July, killing eight people, and then gunned down 69 others at a Labor Party youth camp outside the Norwegian capital. He denies criminal guilt, saying he was acting in self-defence.

“The attacks on July 22 were a preventive strike. I acted in self-defence on behalf of my people, my city, my country,” he said as he finished his statement, in essence a summary of the 1,500-page manifesto he posted online before the attacks. “I therefore demand to be found innocent of the present charges.”

Breivik’s evidence was delayed after one of the five judges hearing the case was dismissed for his comments online the day after the attack that said Breivik deserves the death penalty. Lawyers on all sides had requested that lay judge Thomas Indreboe be taken off the trial, saying the comments violated his impartiality. He was replaced by backup lay judge Elisabeth Wisloeff.

he is the  reverse face of islamic fundamentalism.

all fundamentalists are dangerous.

I agree jackson And the fact that he sees nothing wrong in what he has done is very scary.....

too true Baz.

oh look we got our own nutter.

reminds me of the  shock  and outrage in the states a few years back when they faced the horrible realisation that  that the  murdering terrorist was that white bloke  who lived down the road in oklahoma.

Yes..... there is always a tendency to think these sort of nuts must come from *elsewhere*..... it is always a shock to find that they are sometimes  *one of us*